Combined screen, hinge, and shutter



Dec. 13, 1927. 1,652,684

J. C. POETZ COMBINED SCREEN, HINGE, AND SHUTTER Filed April 28 1926 INVENTOR. 13

JOHN CPOETZ BY 6 MW Arrow! Patented Dec. 13, 1927.

UNITED STATES JOHN C. POETZ, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

COMBINED SCREEN, HINGE, AND SHUTTER.

Application filed April 28, 1926. Serial No. 105,147.

This invention relates to window screen construction, and the objects are to provide a screen with a normally closed hand hole through which a person can reach the shutter to tilt its slats more or less and to make such screen readily removable from the window frame when so desired.

In the accompanying drawing: Fig. 1 is an inside elevation of a window frame and the improved screen applied to it and a window shutter supposed to be just outside the screen, as shown in Fig. 5.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on the line 33 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line H in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 in Fig. 4. Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 7 designates a window frame or L jamb, 8 the window sill and 9 the lintel or top piece. In Fig. 5 10 designates the sash and 11 the slats of an outside shutter which may be hinged at 12 to the outside window casing 13 while 14 is the window stop either 25 secured on the frame or forming an integral part of it. 15 indicates the usual parting strip.

Arranged near the inner side of the shut ter is a screen sash 16 having upon one of its upper corners, secured by screws 18, a plate 19 having a hole 20 for a hinge pin 21 secured in the top 9 of the frame. The nearest bottom corner of the screen sash has secured to it by screws 22 (see Fig. 1) a plate 23, through which is arranged a vertical slidable bolt 24 adapted to engage in a plate 25 fixed on the window sill. Said bolt has a lateral finger catch 26 accessible in a finger groove 27 in the sash and movable vertically in a slot 28.

By this arrangement the screen as a whole may be removed by raising the bolt 24, pushing the screen slightly outward and downward sufficiently to slip it off from the upper stud 21, and then taking it down either outside or inside the house, and a reverse movement will restore it in the frame again or the operator will substitute for it a storm window having plates similar to plates 1923 and the bolt 24.

Vhen the screen is in its place and it is desired to adjust the slats 11' of the shutter for more or less light the shutter is reached by a hand passed through an aperture or hand-hole .29 in the screen 17 (see Flgs. 1

and 2). The screen is reenforced about said hole by a wire frame 30 soldered or otherwise fixed to it and having its ends 31 secured in the bottom bar 16 of the sash 16. When said hole isnot in use it is closed by a gate composed of a wire frame 32 covered with wire cloth 33 and having an upper hinge 34, a lower hinge 35 and a catch 36 to hold it closed. As a further means for holding it closed the end 37 of the frame wire may rest in a cavity 38 in the bottom bar 16 of the screen sash. As shown in Fi 5 it is clear that the screen is not suppose to be removed or replaced while the shutter is closed but only after the latter is swung open and the screen swung also outward so that its finger catch 26 can be operated from within the house.

The means used for tilting the slats 11 of the shutter may be of any suitable form.

Vhat I claim is:

1. In a window screen construction having a hand-hole opening formed therein, a closure for said opening; a metallic frame fixed to the edge of the hand-hole to stiffen the screen; a swingable metal frame hinged to the fixed frame and arranged to close against the screen beyond the fixed frame, and wire netting secured to the swingable frame to make it a door over the hand-hole, and means for holding said door closed.

2. The structure specified in claim 1, in which the said two frames are made of stiff wire and the fixed frame is of inverted U shape and has its legs placed in pits in the bottom rail of the screen sash.

3. The structure specified in claim 1 in which the hinging means of the swingable frame comprises one hinge near the u per corners of the door and an integral plntle formed at the lower corner to turn in a pit in the bottom rail of the screen sash.

4. The structure specified in claim 1, in which the said two frames are made of stifi wire and the fixed frame is of inverted U shape and has its legs placed in pits in the bottom rail of the screen sash, and the hinging means of the swingable frame consists of one hinge near one of the upper corners, and an integral pintle formed at the lower corner to turn in a pit in the bottom rail of the screen sash.

In testimony whereof I afl'lx my signature.

JOHN C. POETZ. 

